Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion

by Richard W Maass

Book Overview

The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the US rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. In contrast to conventional accounts of a nineteenth-century shift from territorial expansion to commercial expansion, Richard W. Maass argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501772295
• ISBN13: 9781501772290
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher